Cinema, technologies of visibility, and the reanimation of desire
By: Vincent J. Hausmann
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780230110922
Description: Exploring the dead/alive figure in such films as The Ring, American Beauty, and The Elephant Man, Vincent Hausmann charts the spectacular reduction of psychic life and assesses calls for shoring up psychic/social spaces that transfer bodily drives to language. Drawing on expansive histories of cinema - including its relation to scientific/medical visual culture's tracking of the human/animal body, psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and sexuality studies, the book demonstrates that conceptions of psychic (re)animation remain interwoven with notions of cinematic motion, and emerge, embedded, in narratives of relations among analog and digital arts/technologies.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : cinema, technologies of visibility, and the reanimation of desire; title: Envisioning the (w)hole world behind things in Sam Mendes's American beauty; title: Burning transmission : stilling psychic space in Gore Verbinski's The ring; title: Turning into another thing : David Lynch's The elephant man; title: Inscribing the dream of otherness at the end of the world; title: Conclusion : up with dead people?